Shoulders Poem Summary

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The application of the poem “Shoulders” by Shane Koyczan, has been pretty converse about its topic relating similarities, irony statements, and confusion about both the poem and the essay “As Canadian As Under the Circumstances” by Linda Hutcheon The poem “Shoulders” by Shane Koyczan had some very strong statements about earth and what we believe in such as our religions and cultures. Then on the other hand, the essay “As Canadian as…. Possible… Under the Circumstances” by Linda Hutcheon states on how Canadian people is about how us canadians believe in certain things about our culture and where we are from; for example we let every type of culture be celebrated in Canada instead of telling everyone who lives there has to celebrate one culture, and that we should all be kind to one another instead of being so disrespectful. One thing about the poem that got me interested was “Mythology was our first attempt to understand the world in which we live in”(Koyczan Line 5) because of how the Aboriginal people believe in a lot of mythology and their spiritual beliefs in their culture. For example they believe that there is another side of life and when you pass away you go to the other side so then they would be able to speak to you. Instead of the gods in the poem …show more content…

The poem is basically all about how much irony is brought out throughout the world; and how it is expressed through people's emotions and their actions. Irony is when “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning”(http://www.dictionary.com/browse/irony?s=t) . Sometimes certain things are difficult to talk about even with people that your comfortable talking

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